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Monday, April 4, 2016

--while the West, under orders from Washington, must scramble to
boost the Iranian economy, Tehran may continue to test ballistic
missiles until they are nuclear capable, and top up the Hizballah
terrorists’ arsenal with ever deadlier tools of death.

President Barack Obama said Friday April 1, that “Iran has so far
followed the letter of the [nuclear] agreement [with the six powers],
but, he added, “the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending
signals to the world community and business that it is not going to be
engaging in a range of provocative actions that may scare business off,”
such as fire-testing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, calling for
Israel’s destruction and providing Hizballah with missiles.

At a news conference ending the two-day nuclear summit in Washington,
Obama went on to say: “Some of the concerns that Iran has expressed, we
are going to work with them to address.” But meanwhile, he said, the US
and its allies are taking steps to help Iraq benefit from the agreement
by facilitating trade and banking transactions with the Islamic
Republic; and the US Treasury Department is seeking to set clearer
investment guidelines for Iran.

Two days earlier, on Wednesday, March 30, the Obama administration
was reported acting to give Iran limited access to US dollars, since the
almost complete lifting of sanctions in January, which netted Tehran an
injection of approximately $150 billion “hasn’t provided the country
with sufficient economic benefits.”

debkafile’s
analysts note the inherent contradiction in the US president’s approach
to Tehran: He wants Iran to be compensated with a never-ending shower of
dollars for agreeing to limit its nuclear program, but “the US and its
allies” cannot question how the money is spent.

So while the West, under orders from Washington, must scramble to
boost the Iranian economy, Tehran may continue to test ballistic
missiles until they are nuclear capable, and top up the Hizballah
terrorists’ arsenal with ever deadlier tools of death.

This glaring inconsistency arises from a fact largely hidden from the
world public: last year’s landmark nuclear accord was concluded by
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad
Zarif – not by the real powers in Tehran, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards chiefs and the ayatollahs at the head
of the fundamentalist Shiite movement.
Indeed, even Rouhani was never allowed to formally sign the deal, much less gain Khamenei’s ratification.

But now, Rouhani’s fate depends on keeping those ruling elites
happy. He has found himself in the position of their hostage, a cash
machine for keeping the funds for the Islamic Republic’s projects termed
by President Obama “provocative” constantly on tap.

Those projects which are currently in full spate clearly leave every
little over from the $150bn to even start lifting the Iranian economy
out of its mess, while the Rouhani’s government carries the can for that
too. Indeed, debkafile’s
Iranians sources disclose, the president is forced to earmark 50
percent of the funds released by sanctions relief for items listed under
“defense”, namely, the nuclear and missile development programs,
Iran’s overseas military operations, including the Syrian war,
subsidizing the Lebanese Hizballah, and establishing new terrorist
organizations for attacks on Israel, such as the Al-Sabirin, on the
Golan.
These enterprises eat up billions of dollars. Just Iran’s operations in
Syria and support for Hizballah cost Tehran $2 billion every month.

Syrian president Bashar Assad didn’t surprise anyone when he revealed
that the five-year civil war in his country had cost $200 billion so
far. With this kind of spending on "defense," the Iranian economy will
continue to decay, while Rouhani’s government, which promised the people
a better life after the nuclear accord, must bow to the will of the
hard-liners or face the consequences.

Our Iranian sources report that Obama’s inconsistent approach to Iran
has sharpened the discord between the two major political camps in
Tehran and put the “reformists” in extreme peril should they dare to
defy the hard-liners who hold the levers of power. Khamenei has publicly
threatened to liquidate such opposition leaders as Rouhani and his
ally, former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

President Rouhani has been put by Obama’s policy in the position of
having to keep Tehran’s hungry war- and terror-mongers flush with cash,
if he is to save himself and fellow “reformists” from “liquidation.”
The supreme leader was pretty blunt when he said on Friday, March 29,
“Those who say the future is in negotiations, not in missiles, are
either ignorant or traitors.” This comment underlined Iran’s overriding
commitment to developing nuclear missiles and a warning to “traitors” of
their fate: execution or a life sentence in a grim Iranian jail.debkaFileSource: http://www.debka.com/article/25341/Rouhani-threatened-unless-he-keeps-Iran%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cprovocative%E2%80%9D-actions-funded- Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.